If Spiderman marries does his wife have to kill him and eat him after the honeymoon?

Question

Just wondered how far the spider thing really goes.

Answer 1

Only if he marries Black Widowwoman or a Praying Mantischick.

Answer 2

He did marry MJ in the comics, as I recall. And there was no head-eating ritual during the honeymoon.

The Black Widow was a comic book character too, however, as someone noted. She partnered up with Daredevil for a time, and once served as an Avenger, too. But Natasha (the Widow) has no special super-powers, she's just a highly trained, and quite human, spy.

There have been multiple Spider-Woman incarnations as well. The first was a product of experiments in bioelectricity and included the injection of a spider's blood, but none of the incarnations seem to have taken on the behavioral traits of actual spiders.

And, as noted, not all spiders do the killing/eating game with their mates.

Fun question. ;)

Answer 3

Only if he marries Spider Woman.

Answer 4

It is highly unlikely that Spiderman would ever marry, since he acquired most of the traits of the spider that bit him, it is likely that he would've acquired the mating traits as well. These spiders are generally speaking opportunistic maters, the males will mate with the females when they are otherwise engaged and can not do anything to prevent it, something we call rape. Peter Parker would then almost be forced to rape women at random whenever the urge hit him, marriage was never on the table, spiders do not mate for life.

"Just wondered how far the spider thing really goes."

Although I was unable to find direct references to explain how far the 'thing' really goes, the genitalia of Achaearanea tepidariorum (common house spider) this is a (relatively) close species, it would fallow to reason that the genitalia of Spiderman would closely resemble that of this species. That being the case it is highly unlikely that Spiderman could enjoy sexual intercourse as we know it since it lacks innervation. His idea of good sex would be something akin to finding a woman that has lost all virginal semblance, he would have a preference for prostitutes or extremely loose women.

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Peter Parker became Spiderman after

"a small Common House Spider happened to be in the path of a particle accelerator's beam and was massively irradiated. The stricken spider fell on to Parker's hand, broke his skin with its fangs, and died." http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/s/spiderman.htm

the common house spider is more often that not:

Common house spider
Order: Araneae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus and species: Achaearanea tepidariorum (C. L. Koch)

http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/achaeara.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaearanea_tepidariorum


Many species in which complex male courtship displays occur have one or more alternative mating tactics, used either by different kinds of individuals or in different circumstances (Thornhill and Alcock 1983) . (I use tactics throughout to mean complex behavior sequences) . Often males attempt to obtain matings without engaging in time-consuming (and often risky) courtship displays . This may be done either by sneaking copulations or by mating with females while they are engaged in some other activity or are incapable of preventing the male's advances . Such tactics are often referred to as "opportunistic mating" (Robinson and Robinson 1980 ; for reviews of alternative mating behaviors, particularly in invertebrates, see Blum and Blum 1979, Thornhill and Alcock 1983) . Alternative mating behaviors were escribed in several species of solitary spiders (Robinson 1978a, Robinson and Robinson 1980, Christenson 1984), but have not been observed previously in social species .

Courtship involved two distinct displays, abdomen vibrating and twanging, which were sometimes accompanied by tapping and rotary movements of first legs. Abdomen vibrating (AVing) involved high frequency, low amplitude, vertical oscillations of the andomen from the pedicel . A single oscillation lasted about 1/9 sec (2 frames of sir►per-8 film at 18 fps) and displaced the mating thread by 2mm. While AVing, a111 legs rested on threads and only the abdomen moved (Fig.3). The vibrations iihduced were probably transmitted via the legs and dragline to the mating thread and thence to threads in contact with the female. Similar abdomen Movements occur as part of the courtship behaviors of other species, e .g ., in the linyphiid, Frontinella pyramitella (Walckenaer) (Suter and Renkes 1984) and n the theridiids Achaearanea tepidariorum (C . L. Koch) (Bonnet 1935),


http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v14_n2/JoA_v14_p239.pdf

Numb palps: possible links between embryology, lack of innervation and the evolution of male genitalia in spiders.

The male genitalia of spiders apparently lack innervation, probably because they are derived embryologically from structures that secrete the tarsal claw, a structure that lacks nerves. The resultant lack of both sensation and fine muscular control in male genitalia may be responsible for the fact that male genitalia in spiders tend to have more complex internal bracing when in use, and to be less often used to seize or pull open the female, than the genitalia of insects. Apparent difficulties with this proposal are discussed. Previous theories regarding the evolution of spider genitalia are unable to explain several types of data.

Edwards, G. B. Curator, Arachnida & Myriapoda, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, P.O.Box 147 100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 USA

http://www.arachnology.org/ISA/meetings/1998ISAabs.htm

Answer 5

uh yeah, thats kinda scary. and no, cause he is the spider person, not his wife...he can marry a human wife, so why would she do it? and i dont think all spiders do that, isnt it just a few? like i think the blackwidow does

Answer 6

No, Mary Jane, wasn't bitten by a radioactive spider.

Answer 7

Only female black widow spiders eat the male after mating, and they don't always do it.

Answer 8

ummm.... i don't think that spiderman (being a human) would marry a spider any way...
sooooooooo, no!
i think his spider thing stops after he saves the day...

Answer 9

You are thinking of black widows, I guess if spiderman's wife is the black widow than yes, otherwise I would say no.

Answer 10

I'm sure he'd rather skip the killing part, but the eating thing...

Which might make her one of few women who will actually give oral sex after the ring is on her finger...